gudgeon

Other forms of gudgeon

plural

gudgeons·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gudgeon

What does gudgeon mean?

gudgeon means "small spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters having a large head and elongated tapering body having the ventral fins modified as a sucker". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gudgeon?

gudgeon has 2 syllables: gud-geon. The stress falls on "gud". In IPA it is /ˈɡʌdʒən/.

What is another word for gudgeon?

Close synonyms include goby, Gobio gobio. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gudgeon a common word?

gudgeon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.